Gerbrand Ceder

The Berkeley Lab was awarded more than $13 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund ongoing research on solid state batteries and connected vehicles., with the aim to make it easier to switch to electric vehicles.

From machine-learning algorithms detecting emergent diseases to a data-driven approach to addressing housing inequity, six UC Berkeley-led projects have been awarded funding from the recently created C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute to use artificial intelligence to help fight the spread of COVID-19.

The National Academy of Engineering elected three UC Berkeley professors to be inducted into the academy in 2017.

A new study from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory deepened scientific understanding of nearly 30,000 materials by quantifying their thermodynamic scale of metastability, a breakthrough that paves the way for future innovations in technologies like batteries and solar power.

Researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have pinned down a poorly understood means of enhancing lithium-ion batteries, unlocking the power to boost performance in a multitude of common electronics.

Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory published an article Thursday unveiling their insights into the previously unknown crystal structure of lithium- and manganese-enriched metal oxides found in batteries, the culmination of nearly four years of research.